Summary:
Tommy Wilhelm (such a British name for me) is a protagonist. Right at the first chapter Saul Bellow gives us a summary of desires of the main character. He wanted to become an actor, so he dropped out of school at the age of fifteen. He wanted to be married but he broke up with his wife who does not want to give him a divorce. Finally he invested money but thinks he lost everything... He is depressed broke and lost... I picked that book because I did not want to end up like him... good thing I am still young, bad thing I already feel like him...
Quote:
"Also He was smoking a cigar, and when the man is smoking a cigar, wearing a hat, he has an advantage; it is harder to find out how he feels" (Bellow 3).
Reaction:
It is a very simple quote located on the first page of the novella, but I think it is great! Women are considered more emotional than man because they show their emotions more often. Man smoking a cigar and wearing a hat creates a very uncertain image and hides his emotions deep underneath his mask of superiority and strength. Do you know what man feels? Do you know how he feels pain or how he wants to hide it? Great quote... That feeling is very familiar to me....Good thing my classmates never open that blog, so they can never understand that the emotions they see are not even close to emotions I have inside myself...Since people don't care about you, crowd does! And it is easier to hide emotions from the crowd than from people who care about you...
"Heroin" By Humberto Fernandez (1-70)
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Summary:
Book was published in 1998. There was much more heroin addiction during the 1990's than it is today- 10 years passed since millennium. Yet heroin was found way before some acid clubs were discovered and even ways to use it were far from insulin syringe. lovely, the book begins with the connection to the The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Character's there were traveling to see the actual Wizard of Oz and were marooned on the poppy field. They all felt weakness and most felt asleep feeling the light-headed effect. A serious highlight for a book and film that were planned to satisfy audience of ages 12 and younger. "This is, of course, and read as such it was not the beauty of that field of red flowers that pud Oz seekers asleep, nor was it the power of the flowers' coolective fragrance. Baum's reference in the story was to opium..."(Fernandez 5). Interesting, ain't it? Mostly childish audience, so why include this? Opium was the first wide use of opium as a drug or rather say a medicine. The Sumerians from Persia were one who started to spread it. In 1271 sett of to China from Europe. He was captured in a battle but his maps helped to establish global opium trade. Portuguese very soon discovered the high price of opium on the market. People smoked it and got addicted. It was a heaven for merchants. Believe it or not they were first and most successful drug dealers in the world. They brought the product from oversees told people to give it a try for free and then could not bring enough to satisfy people's needs. It was banned in vast areas but of course it was used. Today it is illegal but of course there is always someone...History of heroin is a history of one of the worst addictions and worst habits humankind ever had. I can write 7 pages summary about first 70 pages of the book but it will not even be a fifth part of it. So here is just what I found interesting.
Quote:
"The decade before the Civil War found the United States armed with the most powerful painkiller known to man, morphine, and the technology with which to easily inject it into the body" (Fernandez 20)
Reaction:
People already knew that this painkiller with a different use of it would become simply a killer, so why did they... whatever - because it's addicting probably...
Book was published in 1998. There was much more heroin addiction during the 1990's than it is today- 10 years passed since millennium. Yet heroin was found way before some acid clubs were discovered and even ways to use it were far from insulin syringe. lovely, the book begins with the connection to the The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Character's there were traveling to see the actual Wizard of Oz and were marooned on the poppy field. They all felt weakness and most felt asleep feeling the light-headed effect. A serious highlight for a book and film that were planned to satisfy audience of ages 12 and younger. "This is, of course, and read as such it was not the beauty of that field of red flowers that pud Oz seekers asleep, nor was it the power of the flowers' coolective fragrance. Baum's reference in the story was to opium..."(Fernandez 5). Interesting, ain't it? Mostly childish audience, so why include this? Opium was the first wide use of opium as a drug or rather say a medicine. The Sumerians from Persia were one who started to spread it. In 1271 sett of to China from Europe. He was captured in a battle but his maps helped to establish global opium trade. Portuguese very soon discovered the high price of opium on the market. People smoked it and got addicted. It was a heaven for merchants. Believe it or not they were first and most successful drug dealers in the world. They brought the product from oversees told people to give it a try for free and then could not bring enough to satisfy people's needs. It was banned in vast areas but of course it was used. Today it is illegal but of course there is always someone...History of heroin is a history of one of the worst addictions and worst habits humankind ever had. I can write 7 pages summary about first 70 pages of the book but it will not even be a fifth part of it. So here is just what I found interesting.
Quote:
"The decade before the Civil War found the United States armed with the most powerful painkiller known to man, morphine, and the technology with which to easily inject it into the body" (Fernandez 20)
Reaction:
People already knew that this painkiller with a different use of it would become simply a killer, so why did they... whatever - because it's addicting probably...
"The Green MIle" by Stephen King. Post on the Film
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
The starting setting of the film is the nursing home, where "old" Paul Edgecomb (Dabbs Greer) lives, and he is one of the oldest. It is full of reaction shots, because most of the time Paul thinks, and by facial expressions director gives us some highlights of what happened in character's past. The story of the actual green mile is told by "old" Paul Edgecomb to his friend in a nursing home- Elane (Eve Brent). It brings viewer back to 1932. Here most of the events are really close to a book. However the personall life of people who worked on the mile: Brutus "Brutal" Howell (David Morse) and Dean (Barry Pepper) are minimized. In the book reader can find some information about there life outside of the "mile", while in the film it just told us the their family status when they were deciding whether to help their boss wife Melinda (Patricia Clarkson) by bringing John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan). The life of prisoners on the mile: Eduard Delacroix (Michael Jeter) and Wild Bill (Sam Rockwell) is emphasized. It makes viewer feel sorry for Delacroix and discusting and guilty at the same time for Wild Bill. However it does not tell the viewer that Delacroix burned a women dormitary and a lot of young girls died in there. Percy (Doug Hutchison) usually shown from high angle, what makes him seem even more misreable than he is. Every time when John Coffey looks at Wild Bill, he is almost crying and it foreshadows the ironical end of the film since we know that John did not kill two young girls. During each time when John Coffey does his magic and helps someome same mysterical theme song is playying and it foreshadows that magic is going to happen right now. Before someone gets executed, there is always a shot taken from the floor of the block that shows us the corridor very greenish yellow and makes the assumption why is it called a green mile. My favorite shot in the beginning of the movie is a reaction shot when Paul, Brutal, and Dean see John Coffey. Previos shot showed viewer a percy and the huge black elbow right next to his head, so we know what amazed Green Mile guards next shot whis is a reaction shot as I said previously. Total duration of the film is more than three hours and 95 percent of the book by Stephen is well adapted. Film makes you feel... It is a great book to read, and great movie to compare it to.
Green Mile by Stephen King (100-200)
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Paul has a disease and he has a trouble using a bathroom because antibiotics were not good enough at a time. Once John called Paul after he used a bathroom and held him a little below his stomach. All lights on the mile went bright, all prisoners were scared and one Eduard Delacroix started screaming however Paul told him to shut up because he felt a relief. John said he is very tired and started to cough and then something strange came out of his mouth and he went to sleep. Paul told everyone not to tell about what they saw and then he went to read carefully over John's trial. He was freaked out of his life while reading what John did to girls, however he did not trust that this giant who seems so quiet and who even took away his disease could done something like that. He started thinking why would God give that powers to someone who kills children. However here Stephen King takes away these thoughts from readers brain,
Green Mile by Stephen King (30-100)
Thursday, January 21, 2010
John Coffey was brought to the mile by guard who was two times shorter than him. His name is Percy. On the way to the Block he was yelling that that man will be executed. No one besides him ever said it and Paul and other guards started saying how nice it would be if he just shut's up forever. Every writer is the stealer, and here I found theft because it is so simmilar to John Stenbeck's of Mice and Men. It was awfully simmilar in Green Mile when Curley started to hate Lennie since the first day. Lennie is not very bright guy same as John Coffey. Percy and Curly are simmilar and even have names that sounds sneaky enough to understand that they are two guys with nothing about themsleves but a lot of connections they have some connections that can keep them somehow alive. Other prisoners introduced in the green mile. By the way Paul has problems with his urination because it's 1930's and medicine are far behind of what it was even in 1960's. He has great pain when uses a bathroom and it becomes such a big deal, so everyone on the mile knows it. Back to mice and men. Chapter 7 and 8 is all around a small mouse. They never saw mouses on the block and for Paul it was like an another prisoner. Interesting thing is that mouse gives comfort to everyone. It gave comfort to Lennie one of the prisoners and even to Paul himself. Why does mouse give comfort? Human can fell power over it and understand that it's so easy for him to kill it? So far all I mostly thought about was the idea of watching a film and comparing it to the book at the same time.
Quote:
"Percy gave him a look that was narrow-eyed and a touch uncertain"(King 76)
Reaction:
I don't really know why, but those cliched conflicts between a little weak guy and a big silly guy seem a little bit depp to me. Why man always want's control over someone, especially someone who is much stronger. Will be a proof of something? Power? Bravery? What??? Human nature- how strange and interesting you are... Even a look can be an idea to write a book. Nice job Stephen King- you write good hooks to keep reader online.
Quote:
"Percy gave him a look that was narrow-eyed and a touch uncertain"(King 76)
Reaction:
I don't really know why, but those cliched conflicts between a little weak guy and a big silly guy seem a little bit depp to me. Why man always want's control over someone, especially someone who is much stronger. Will be a proof of something? Power? Bravery? What??? Human nature- how strange and interesting you are... Even a look can be an idea to write a book. Nice job Stephen King- you write good hooks to keep reader online.
Green Mile by Stephen King (1-30)
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Sumarry:
Heard so much about the movie called Green Mile however I also heard that book is even better. Text beggins with words , "This story happened in 1932".The story takes place in 1932 on the E Block (Death Row) in Cold Mountain Penitentiary in Georgia. This section was not the same to all other sections of the prison- it was called a Green Mile or Last Mile, because that's where people lived imprisioned untill they were executed using electric chair. Paul say's that he saw 78 executions and it is the number that he would never forget. Interesting thing is that all of those prisoners were killers or rapers however nature of human made Paul feel sorry for barbaric animals who killed children or women. Chapter to begins with words that 1932 was a year of John Coffey. He is descrived as huge African American person, who behaves himself retarded a little bit however seems quite. He convicted of raping and murdering two young white girls, and the other two inmates on death row, along with the guards who watch over them. It was part where I finished my reading, because I want more time to read it slowly. I would only comment the style in which Stephen King wrote this work. Story teller is actually an old man who now lives in nursing home. However King did a great job and along 30 pages it feels like it happened yesterday 5 miles away from you and you just went there to see what hapened and can talk to people there for details.
Quote:
"Your name is John Coffey.
Yes, sir, boss, like the drink only not spelled the same way" (King 23).
Reaction:
Surprising thing that it is the most famous quote from the book and movie. I heard is from my neighbor few days ago. He told me it will be repeated in the film many times. I want to know will be there some symbolism in these lines
Heard so much about the movie called Green Mile however I also heard that book is even better. Text beggins with words , "This story happened in 1932".The story takes place in 1932 on the E Block (Death Row) in Cold Mountain Penitentiary in Georgia. This section was not the same to all other sections of the prison- it was called a Green Mile or Last Mile, because that's where people lived imprisioned untill they were executed using electric chair. Paul say's that he saw 78 executions and it is the number that he would never forget. Interesting thing is that all of those prisoners were killers or rapers however nature of human made Paul feel sorry for barbaric animals who killed children or women. Chapter to begins with words that 1932 was a year of John Coffey. He is descrived as huge African American person, who behaves himself retarded a little bit however seems quite. He convicted of raping and murdering two young white girls, and the other two inmates on death row, along with the guards who watch over them. It was part where I finished my reading, because I want more time to read it slowly. I would only comment the style in which Stephen King wrote this work. Story teller is actually an old man who now lives in nursing home. However King did a great job and along 30 pages it feels like it happened yesterday 5 miles away from you and you just went there to see what hapened and can talk to people there for details.
Quote:
"Your name is John Coffey.
Yes, sir, boss, like the drink only not spelled the same way" (King 23).
Reaction:
Surprising thing that it is the most famous quote from the book and movie. I heard is from my neighbor few days ago. He told me it will be repeated in the film many times. I want to know will be there some symbolism in these lines
Rule of the Bone a novel by Russel Banks (190-260) and (260-330)
Thursday, December 17, 2009
(260-330)
Summary:
Bone is in Jamaica with I-man and same as I when came to Boston he did not see it as he expected it to be. They smoke weed and pass out. There few other boys and all they do is just go around and deliver ganja(that's what weed called in Jamaica and from there came to Russia) to people. Bone get's bored because it is exactly what he was doing back in his hometown and he runs off to see if he can do something himself. However oneday he sees a man who looks just like his father looked on the picture and he runs crazy to see him, however he drives away too fast. His father was with a woman and by finding that woman's house he finds his dad. Father did not realized his son until Bone tell him that his real name is Chappie and then they both are filled with joy. Father congratulated Bone with his birthday however there was no cake and no one came to celebrate. Bone went to the kitchen and heard some strange noises from the room. It was I-man having sex with his dad's girlfriend and he first runs to his dad and tells him. However then he runs back because dad told him that he will kill I-man and Bone hurries and escapes with I-man. That what happens when you did not live with your father forever. You choose a friend over him because one day he chose woman over you! It is the great moment of drama where Bone is completely alone but trying to save his "friend's" life. They run to I'man's hometown and smoke weed trying to find real themselves. Stupid guys just smoke weed... Too much... gets me bored
Quote:
"Why? Because what's mine is mine. That's the rule i live by, Bone" (Banks 302)
Reaction:
Because you have nothing, your son will probably have nothing and that is how your "family" will live...
(190-260)
Summary:
I call chapter 10 of the book the scene where Bone really became an adult. He went home to find his mother and stepfather but he only found second one extremely drunk. He went to the place for alcohol anonyms to find his mother. Mother was happy to see him and asked to come back home so they can return everything and begin a new life as a happy family, however Bone does not want it and tells his man to divorse his stepfather. It was his cruel mistake because you should not give woman such a choice. As a result he got his mother who choose stepfather instead of her son and as I said this is the moment when bone really did grow up. My idealogy is that person never become fully an adult until his is lovely son for somone. However when parents die or kick you out of the house this is the real coming of age and now you are an adult. However person can not be lonely or dont want to and that is why Bone goes to his grandmother to ask about his real father however gradmother says he was a bad guy and he should just go and live with his mom and stepfather. Bone decides that even dad that he didn't see for years will be better and he goes to find him. I think that Bone just tries to find himself in the world or better say find someone who will need him, someone who will love him and not use him as a chappie but respect as the BONE. I-man decides to go home to Jamaica and after some internal debates Bone decides to go too... Poor little boy... I already feel the danger
Quote:
"Maybe ten minutes later I'm standing out there on the Bridge Street with my thumb up in the air and this flashy new silver-colored Saab Turbo 9000 stops and it's Whitey and Jamie Lee Curtis. Jamie is driving and Whitey goes, hop in kid" (Banks 187).
Reaction:
For some reason when I was going to USA for the first time I thought that life will be like there in the quote. I felt like movie stars will drive around asking how are you doing and NBA players just play outside asking you to join... American dream... American idol... American nothing in fact!
Summary:
Bone is in Jamaica with I-man and same as I when came to Boston he did not see it as he expected it to be. They smoke weed and pass out. There few other boys and all they do is just go around and deliver ganja(that's what weed called in Jamaica and from there came to Russia) to people. Bone get's bored because it is exactly what he was doing back in his hometown and he runs off to see if he can do something himself. However oneday he sees a man who looks just like his father looked on the picture and he runs crazy to see him, however he drives away too fast. His father was with a woman and by finding that woman's house he finds his dad. Father did not realized his son until Bone tell him that his real name is Chappie and then they both are filled with joy. Father congratulated Bone with his birthday however there was no cake and no one came to celebrate. Bone went to the kitchen and heard some strange noises from the room. It was I-man having sex with his dad's girlfriend and he first runs to his dad and tells him. However then he runs back because dad told him that he will kill I-man and Bone hurries and escapes with I-man. That what happens when you did not live with your father forever. You choose a friend over him because one day he chose woman over you! It is the great moment of drama where Bone is completely alone but trying to save his "friend's" life. They run to I'man's hometown and smoke weed trying to find real themselves. Stupid guys just smoke weed... Too much... gets me bored
Quote:
"Why? Because what's mine is mine. That's the rule i live by, Bone" (Banks 302)
Reaction:
Because you have nothing, your son will probably have nothing and that is how your "family" will live...
(190-260)
Summary:
I call chapter 10 of the book the scene where Bone really became an adult. He went home to find his mother and stepfather but he only found second one extremely drunk. He went to the place for alcohol anonyms to find his mother. Mother was happy to see him and asked to come back home so they can return everything and begin a new life as a happy family, however Bone does not want it and tells his man to divorse his stepfather. It was his cruel mistake because you should not give woman such a choice. As a result he got his mother who choose stepfather instead of her son and as I said this is the moment when bone really did grow up. My idealogy is that person never become fully an adult until his is lovely son for somone. However when parents die or kick you out of the house this is the real coming of age and now you are an adult. However person can not be lonely or dont want to and that is why Bone goes to his grandmother to ask about his real father however gradmother says he was a bad guy and he should just go and live with his mom and stepfather. Bone decides that even dad that he didn't see for years will be better and he goes to find him. I think that Bone just tries to find himself in the world or better say find someone who will need him, someone who will love him and not use him as a chappie but respect as the BONE. I-man decides to go home to Jamaica and after some internal debates Bone decides to go too... Poor little boy... I already feel the danger
Quote:
"Maybe ten minutes later I'm standing out there on the Bridge Street with my thumb up in the air and this flashy new silver-colored Saab Turbo 9000 stops and it's Whitey and Jamie Lee Curtis. Jamie is driving and Whitey goes, hop in kid" (Banks 187).
Reaction:
For some reason when I was going to USA for the first time I thought that life will be like there in the quote. I felt like movie stars will drive around asking how are you doing and NBA players just play outside asking you to join... American dream... American idol... American nothing in fact!
Rule of the Bone a novel by Russel Banks (70-130) and (130-190)
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
(130-190)
Summary:
Again Cappie or Bone founds that he has no place to go. He starts to deal with rock bands as was advised by Buster- new person he found to stay with. The name of chapter eight is The Soul of Assasains which is by the way is the name of the rock band that Bone and Buster went to deal with. However accident happens and Bone takes away Buster's money he got from rock band and runs away. He mets a person called I-man who becomes his best friend step after step. I-man is now an adult who brings Bone back to life from all the difficulties, durt and dust he had in his life and shows him more common way of living, where school and cooking can replace the joy coming from drugs and as an adult Bone undertands it. And by the way the greatest thing or idea i found is that in previous chapters narrator was called Chappie which is food for dogs but for very cheezy small weak domestic dogs, and now his name is Bone- food for real dogs! Great great great
Quote:
"When I reached the bottom of the hill by the Stewart's in Keene I had to ask myself for the first time in a while which way to go, west or east" (Banks 134).
Reaction:
By the way Chappie always had to ask himself where to go. However east and west is just a nice polite representation. He had to decide where to leave home or not, to sell drugs or not, to still or not and so on. That what it makes a good coming of age book because it shows how teenager starts to do his own choices at very young age, how those choices change his life and how he starts to realize which choice is right. Also this quote shows that he became a little bit more down to Earth as an adult. I was feeling a little bit sorry for him, but i could end up like him or anyone could if they make such an amount of wrong choices. As we had it for the SAT prep essay the question was Do your memories help you to succeed in the future. Memories of Chappie's mistakes started helping him a little and hope will help him to get out of that ocean of troubles.
(70-130)
Summary:
So far the name of the narrator is Chappie. He ran away from home and now he is in the dirty world of drug users. On pages 70-80 main conflict is around Chappie stealing a VCR from a company of people called bikers that i forgot to introduce in the first summary. Bikers are not people who have hurley daviidson's and wear leather jackes calling themselves angels of the sky or angels of hell. In this text bikers are people who do nothing but smoke weed eat pizza and drink all day and dont care what is happening outside of that world. I can see why it is a coming of age story. First step was his running away from home. He decided to do so and by the way what makes him more adult is that he did not go back and started appologizing yet as most kids do at the age of 14 or 15. Most of the people especially who had troubles with weed some day decide to run away from home. Chappie is like a classic example of teenager in that type of the situation. He is in circumstances where he have a strict step-father, mother that does not even care about him that much, and bad people to hang out with. He is the classical example of a bad kid however the thing that makes this story interesting is how will he get out of that situation or will he just leave everything as it is? Way, So far Banks makes reader feel sorry about Chappie, however at the same exact moment he makes reader angry about Chappie for taking easiest wrong choice. He and Bruce set bikers house on fire just because they wanted to steal VCR. From the Chappie's point of view we can see how all three realized that they are all criminals and Chappie asks himself who would be sad and who would care about him if he dies. I think it is also can be called a breakpoint because it is the thought of and adult! Kid will just say oh, okay, ill die, whatever... Russ left his car at the place of fire and there is weed in that car too and Russ wants to go back and take it. Chappie says that he is too material and he says : "I said, No way, man." This is second place where Chappie behaves himself as an adult by saying forget about money too alder guy and let's go, act smarter, and may be we will save our buds from troubles, and by the way older person- Russ listens to him.
Quote:
"Yeah, well, that's the difference between us, Chapstick. Which is what worries me about you. You can't spend your life dealing weed to Adironack Iron, man. You've got to start thinking about the future. Biker gangs, they come and go, man" (Banks 70).
Reaction:
Russ talks like an adult, like a father that met his bad son and just gives him a best advice, however afterwards Chappie takes this place and they chage roles!
Summary:
Again Cappie or Bone founds that he has no place to go. He starts to deal with rock bands as was advised by Buster- new person he found to stay with. The name of chapter eight is The Soul of Assasains which is by the way is the name of the rock band that Bone and Buster went to deal with. However accident happens and Bone takes away Buster's money he got from rock band and runs away. He mets a person called I-man who becomes his best friend step after step. I-man is now an adult who brings Bone back to life from all the difficulties, durt and dust he had in his life and shows him more common way of living, where school and cooking can replace the joy coming from drugs and as an adult Bone undertands it. And by the way the greatest thing or idea i found is that in previous chapters narrator was called Chappie which is food for dogs but for very cheezy small weak domestic dogs, and now his name is Bone- food for real dogs! Great great great
Quote:
"When I reached the bottom of the hill by the Stewart's in Keene I had to ask myself for the first time in a while which way to go, west or east" (Banks 134).
Reaction:
By the way Chappie always had to ask himself where to go. However east and west is just a nice polite representation. He had to decide where to leave home or not, to sell drugs or not, to still or not and so on. That what it makes a good coming of age book because it shows how teenager starts to do his own choices at very young age, how those choices change his life and how he starts to realize which choice is right. Also this quote shows that he became a little bit more down to Earth as an adult. I was feeling a little bit sorry for him, but i could end up like him or anyone could if they make such an amount of wrong choices. As we had it for the SAT prep essay the question was Do your memories help you to succeed in the future. Memories of Chappie's mistakes started helping him a little and hope will help him to get out of that ocean of troubles.
(70-130)
Summary:
So far the name of the narrator is Chappie. He ran away from home and now he is in the dirty world of drug users. On pages 70-80 main conflict is around Chappie stealing a VCR from a company of people called bikers that i forgot to introduce in the first summary. Bikers are not people who have hurley daviidson's and wear leather jackes calling themselves angels of the sky or angels of hell. In this text bikers are people who do nothing but smoke weed eat pizza and drink all day and dont care what is happening outside of that world. I can see why it is a coming of age story. First step was his running away from home. He decided to do so and by the way what makes him more adult is that he did not go back and started appologizing yet as most kids do at the age of 14 or 15. Most of the people especially who had troubles with weed some day decide to run away from home. Chappie is like a classic example of teenager in that type of the situation. He is in circumstances where he have a strict step-father, mother that does not even care about him that much, and bad people to hang out with. He is the classical example of a bad kid however the thing that makes this story interesting is how will he get out of that situation or will he just leave everything as it is? Way, So far Banks makes reader feel sorry about Chappie, however at the same exact moment he makes reader angry about Chappie for taking easiest wrong choice. He and Bruce set bikers house on fire just because they wanted to steal VCR. From the Chappie's point of view we can see how all three realized that they are all criminals and Chappie asks himself who would be sad and who would care about him if he dies. I think it is also can be called a breakpoint because it is the thought of and adult! Kid will just say oh, okay, ill die, whatever... Russ left his car at the place of fire and there is weed in that car too and Russ wants to go back and take it. Chappie says that he is too material and he says : "I said, No way, man." This is second place where Chappie behaves himself as an adult by saying forget about money too alder guy and let's go, act smarter, and may be we will save our buds from troubles, and by the way older person- Russ listens to him.
Quote:
"Yeah, well, that's the difference between us, Chapstick. Which is what worries me about you. You can't spend your life dealing weed to Adironack Iron, man. You've got to start thinking about the future. Biker gangs, they come and go, man" (Banks 70).
Reaction:
Russ talks like an adult, like a father that met his bad son and just gives him a best advice, however afterwards Chappie takes this place and they chage roles!
Rule of the Bone a novel by Russel Banks (1-70)
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Summary:
The first chapter of the book is called "Don't Touch Anything." Story begins with a little introduction that actually was a pretty good hook and drove me right in the middle of the action on the same exact page. Narrator did not introduce himself but said that he is 14 years old and already have pretty big experience with drugs (weed). He lives with his mother who divorced his dad 10 years ago and no lives with stepfather. If you read "Go Ask Alice" by Anonymos it seemed real but it is fake. Here author began with saying that his actual life is much brighter and much more interesting that he can imagine or create in his mind. He is so addicted to weed but for me it seems different from many people. Okay weed - fun, high, enjoying. Go find a girlfriend! It will be much more fun and you will have better stories to tell people. In first 70 pages he describes smoking weed as something that will never change, like he has no other choice and it will be his faith forever. What are their parents like? People who caught their kids smoking weed and stealing goods from just say ok you can leave but anytime you have no place to stay overnight you are welcome to come back? BUSH! Also his friend does not have a place to live now but hi has Chevy Camaro. They both need to go to any other country where you have something more fun to do and can not afford Camaro not because you spend all your money on weed, but because it's like that! However still easy to read and pretty interesting. Reading this book is like watching a movie where shots are switching fast and you do not have time to become boring!
Quote:
"The fact is the truth is more interesting than anything I could make up and that's why I'm telling it in the first place" (Banks 1).
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Great, great, great quote! It is true and it is what I am telling about most modern books, movies and music. If really popular rapper or RnB singer create a lyrics that is absolute true it will probably look like that : "I have that phone in my hands because my producer told me so
He chose the place where me and my fake girlfriend should go
HE signed a contract with BUICK as my car that even looks funny
But I can not complain because it is not my money...." Something like that
You have to live through a something in order to understand it!
Lincoln As I Knew Him by Harold Holzer (220-275)
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Summary:
Finally at the end of the book the section i waited comes in. It is an interview of Herold Holzer about Abraham Lincoln. It summarizes author oppinion about president. I would prefer to read a book written from the first point of view even if it is a biography. however i decided to try. Over all book gave a nice discription of Lincoln throughout his life. Memories of family members, people who worked with him, journalists and reporters, military people who hated him. I understand he was good as a person and good as a politic person. Favorite part of the book was a section called the memories of a military people and generals. Because first time i heard such critics adressed to presedent. Also the good part are memories from Africans Americans. As I mentioned before it would be the best of the sources for research paper about Abraham Lincoln. There anyone will easily found all sides of his personality and also oppinions of people who lived during his era. Not just critics but huge variety of people of every class. Harold Holzer did a great job of organizing it. However if you want to read just really interesting biography full of adventures it is not a right book for you.
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Once he died, the image of the Moses who did not quite live to guide his people to the promised land- or the Christlike figure who gave his life, like the original, on Good Friday- took hold of the American imagination" (Holzer 270).
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This a pretty big qoute. I choose it because wanted to summarize my understanding of the book and Lincoln as a person. My oppinion he was a good person. Holzer said he was a Christlike figure who gave his life for people. Moses who did not quite live to guide his people to the promised land. I think it is an exagerrated but pretty straight-forward discription of any good president. President should be good only by bringing money to country but also humane and good as a person. By good I mean wide, and one who can feel the pain of his people more than his own since he took a leadership over them. I think based on this book I can conclude that Lincoln was that type of president and person in some ways! Overall easy to read, packed with information and historically-educational book.
Finally at the end of the book the section i waited comes in. It is an interview of Herold Holzer about Abraham Lincoln. It summarizes author oppinion about president. I would prefer to read a book written from the first point of view even if it is a biography. however i decided to try. Over all book gave a nice discription of Lincoln throughout his life. Memories of family members, people who worked with him, journalists and reporters, military people who hated him. I understand he was good as a person and good as a politic person. Favorite part of the book was a section called the memories of a military people and generals. Because first time i heard such critics adressed to presedent. Also the good part are memories from Africans Americans. As I mentioned before it would be the best of the sources for research paper about Abraham Lincoln. There anyone will easily found all sides of his personality and also oppinions of people who lived during his era. Not just critics but huge variety of people of every class. Harold Holzer did a great job of organizing it. However if you want to read just really interesting biography full of adventures it is not a right book for you.
Quote:
Once he died, the image of the Moses who did not quite live to guide his people to the promised land- or the Christlike figure who gave his life, like the original, on Good Friday- took hold of the American imagination" (Holzer 270).
Reaction:
This a pretty big qoute. I choose it because wanted to summarize my understanding of the book and Lincoln as a person. My oppinion he was a good person. Holzer said he was a Christlike figure who gave his life for people. Moses who did not quite live to guide his people to the promised land. I think it is an exagerrated but pretty straight-forward discription of any good president. President should be good only by bringing money to country but also humane and good as a person. By good I mean wide, and one who can feel the pain of his people more than his own since he took a leadership over them. I think based on this book I can conclude that Lincoln was that type of president and person in some ways! Overall easy to read, packed with information and historically-educational book.
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